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...seat IMAX theater in Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 12 was a banner day. On the 53-ft.-high screen that evening: the first full-length feature converted into IMAX 3-D, Warner Bros.' The Polar Express. One performance after the other sold out--and the momentum kept up all weekend, even with ticket prices at $13. When the receipts were counted, this IMAX screen had raked in more for the film's opening than any other theater in the state. "We would've done even better," says John Loeks, CEO of Celebration! Cinemas in Michigan...
...Philadelphia, fans frustrated by the team's awful play once famously booed Santa Claus during half time. Behavior at Eagles games got so bad that officials seven years ago set up an on-site court in Veterans Stadium--with a jail--to handle the worst offenders. Eagles president Joe Banner says the jail only "moderately improved" behavior at the Vet; it took a move to a new stadium, with a high-tech security system equipped with 100 cameras to spot trouble, to quiet things down, at least...
...commanders calculated that the U.S. or Israel was about to hit Iran's nuclear facilities. "We will not sit with arms folded," he told the al-Jazeera network. Backing up the threat, Iran unveiled 1,300-km-range Shahab-3 missiles at a national parade in September, where one banner bore the slogan WIPE ISRAEL...
President Mikheil Saakashvili replaced the Georgian symbol this year with a five-cross banner that used to be his party's flag...
...sunny banner may be officially adopted in 2005 to replace a Soviet-style precursor. The new flag is said to symbolize unity and harmony...